Every day I go to sleep on a mattress topper that tells me how good my sleep was last night. I know when I fell asleep, I know when I woke up to go pee, I know things like my heartrate, and all of these other wonderful facts and figures. My Apple Watch tells me how many steps I’ve made, my resting heartrate, and many other metrics too. I know on Peloton exactly how often I’ve been on the bike, my average output, my heartrate, and so on. I drop that into TrainingPeaks, which tells me roughly how much I did in totality for a week or a month or a year. I can tell you exactly how much I’ve lifted on
There are methodologies for progressive loading in cycling to improve your cycling fitness. They are not implemented well in Peloton, since its audience is not really about improving cycling performance. Try TrainerRoad or sufferfest or even some Zwift programs to get away from the unstructured training.... but this assumes the ‘context’ is getting better at something, which isn’t always the case!
TrainerRoad has adaptive training for cycling which accomplishes what you’re after. Fitbod does the same for strength training. HRV4TRAINING does so with sleep - allowing you to delve into the why with correlations. TrainingPeaks works in conjunction with WKO5 to be more prescriptive based on your preferred training ideology. Keep in mind that health and fitness apps must be cautious in their prescriptions for legal reasons. They can help you make informed decisions, but like MyFitnessPal telling you to eat less, it opens doors quickly to problems vs telling you that eating X calories with Y calorie expenditure produced Z weight. Make your own decisions and streamline your information to do so!
The Next Steps For The Quantified Self Are Context and Coaching
There are methodologies for progressive loading in cycling to improve your cycling fitness. They are not implemented well in Peloton, since its audience is not really about improving cycling performance. Try TrainerRoad or sufferfest or even some Zwift programs to get away from the unstructured training.... but this assumes the ‘context’ is getting better at something, which isn’t always the case!
TrainerRoad has adaptive training for cycling which accomplishes what you’re after. Fitbod does the same for strength training. HRV4TRAINING does so with sleep - allowing you to delve into the why with correlations. TrainingPeaks works in conjunction with WKO5 to be more prescriptive based on your preferred training ideology. Keep in mind that health and fitness apps must be cautious in their prescriptions for legal reasons. They can help you make informed decisions, but like MyFitnessPal telling you to eat less, it opens doors quickly to problems vs telling you that eating X calories with Y calorie expenditure produced Z weight. Make your own decisions and streamline your information to do so!
Have you experimented with homegrowing a training system? What did / does that look like?